Benfica 3-1 AGF: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 20 August 2026
Result
Benfica 3-1 AGF
Europa League · Thursday 20 August 2026, 19:00 UTC · Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisboa · half-time 3-1
Benfica 3-1 AGF: match report
Benfica won against AGF 3-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 20 August 2026 at Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica. It was 3-1 at half-time.
Rafa Silva opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Benfica's goals came from Rafa Silva (2'), Leandro Barreiro (31') and Vangelis Pavlidis (45+2', penalty). AGF scored through Sebastian Jørgensen (36').
Discipline: Benfica received 2 yellow cards; AGF received 1 yellow card.
Benfica lined up in a 4-1-3-2 and AGF in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Mads Hedenstad of AGF (7.9), ahead of Samuel Dahl (7.8).
Going into the match Benfica's last five read D-W-W-L and AGF's L-W-W-L.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Rafa Silva
- 9'Yellow card · Leandro Barreiro
- 24'Yellow card · Tomás Araújo
- 31'Goal · Leandro Barreiro
- 36'Goal · Sebastian Jørgensen
- 45+2'Penalty goal · Vangelis Pavlidis
- 83'Yellow card · Stefen Tchamche
Form and table
| # | Team | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benfica | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 9 | WWW |
Team news
Unavailable
- R. Gyamfi
- Frederik Tingager
- Kevin Yakob
- Jonas Jensen-Abbew
- Nicolai Poulsen
- Tómas Kristjánsson
- Oskar Haugstrup
Benfica line-up (4-1-3-2)
Samuel Soares, Alexander Bah, Clément Lenglet, Tomás Araújo, Samuel Dahl, Leandro Barreiro, Gianluca Prestianni, Enzo Barrenechea, Georgiy Sudakov, Vangelis Pavlidis, Rafa Silva
AGF line-up (3-5-2)
Mads Hedenstad, Colin Rösler, Mouhammade Camara, Eric Kahl, Jacob Andersen, Sebastian Jørgensen, Kristian Arnstad, Magnus Knudsen, Frederik Emmery, Tobias Bech, James Bogere
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